The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-02
Weekly News Summary.

carnival.
New banks are talked of for St. Adams
and Barre.
THERE was a heavy snow-storm on Mount
Mansfield last week.
HAM BROOKS house at Barnet was burned
Friday night. Loss $500; insured.
REV. EDWIN WHEELocK of Cambridge
was married last week to Mrs. Eaton.
THE Ethan Allen Engine Company OF
Burlington visited Montreal last week.
THE Champain Company's new steamer
Chateaugay was launched Tuesday
E.B. KNIGHT, an old citizen of Chester,
fell in fit into brook and was drowned.
BURLINGTON and st. Adams had snow
enough Saturday night to cover the ground
DANIEL HARvEY's son at Hiuesburgh
fooled with loaded gun and was shot in
the leg.
THERE are now confined in the house OF
correction sXty-seven men and twelve
women.
ALBURGH is suffering from a prolonged
drouth. Fall feed is scarce and the wells
nearly dry,
REV. l.. l.. GREENE, pastor of the Univer-
salist church at Bath, Maine, has received a
call from Springfield
MEXICAN war pensions have been granted
to Benjamin Duba of Grand Isle and James
LaPian of Bakersfield.
LUcIUs CoURRILLE's grocery store in St
Adams was burned Saturday night. Loss
$780, insurance, 81, 200.
Mrs. Moses SHARKEY of st. Adams tried
to light fire with kerosene. The oil ex-
ploded and she was badly burned.
FIRE Saturday morning destroyed the
Center Rutland Hotel, the stable and large
tenement-house. Loss $4,000; insured for
$1,000.
THE battle monument at Bennington has
reached a height of twenty feet Work
thereon will soon be suspended for the
winter.
A FARMER on Goshen mountain boasts OF
raising an ear of corn of the twelve-rowed
variety that contains 672 kernels and weighs
a pound.
THE Fairbanks Scale Company made over
800 scales last week-one of the biggest
weeks records in the history of that estab-
lishment.
SOME evil-disposed person poisoned pair
of oxen belonging to William Peake of
Wheelock by giving them paris green mixed
with meal
CHARLES b. WOODRUFF of Rutland, COM
mission agent for Wilbur's shirt factory,
has been arrested in New York for stealing
goods from the firm.
CHARLES LAMBS young daughter, in Rut-
land, was fatally burned the other day.
She was poking at a burning pile of rub
Dish and her clothes caught fire.
CHARLES PIERCE of Chester has 100 traps
set, and in two weeks time he has made
forty-two captures including four foxes,
raccoons, muskrats, skunks, etc.
The Gettysburg monument fund now
amounts to 81 800, of which $1,000 have
been raised by private subscription. The
commission propose to raise $1,000 more.
AN Australian sheep-dealer has just paid
a visit to Middlebury to select and buy about
seventy-five head of the best specimens of
Spanish Merino sheep he can find in the
state.
THE former pupils of Principal B. F. Bing-
ham of Brattleboro turned out in large num-
bers the other night to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of his services in the high
school.
Two small islands off Charlotte have just
been sold-one of them to a New York man
for $1,000. Lake front property in Charlotte
is said to be talked of " by several city
people.
JAMES RILEY marble polisher, recently
in the employ of the Vermont Marble Com
pany at Proctor, was killed on the track
near Rutland by the Burlington express
Friday.
THE loss to the Central Vermont by the
burning of the depot, water-house and sheds
at Bolton, October oath, was $500. Two
houses belonging to Solomon Bishop were
also burned
REV. S. j. BARRETT of Rutland has de-
clined a call from Newport. He has re-
ceived a call from the Congregational
churchin Castleton, which, it is understood,
he will accept.
PETER VANTINE's house at Alburgh was
burned last week. Cause, sparks from the
chimney Loss 81 900; insurance, 5000.
George Mott, the occupant, lost all his
household effects; no insurance.
G. H. RICE, formerly a side Judge and
merchant in Grand Isle county, and a resi-
dent of Milton for many years since that
time, died October 23d, aged seventy-nne.
He was honored and respected by all,
WEsTMoRE boasts of young giant,
named Floyd Tuft, about eight years old,
weighing 1,235 pounds. Estate Erchaage.
Isn't that pretty big story? Let us re-
move figure from one side or the other.
PATENTS granted Vermonters Bracket
G. Corser, St. Adams (of Willard Manufac-
turing Coz for combined button-hole and
buckle NJ. w. Farrow of Brattleboro, for
breech-loading firearms; Edward Goss of
St. Johnsbury, for clothes-drier
A CURIoUsLY marked apple was picked up
in Perkinsvile orchard the other day.
About two-thirds of the surface is of a
light straw color, specked with pink, and
the other third is pink. The distinction is
as marked as though the apple were hand
painted.
The special town meeting held at West
Rutland adopted the report of the COM
mittee on the division of the town from Rut-
land The town voted to issue seventeen
bonds of 81 900 each and one of $500, bear
ing five per cent interest and payable in
twenty years-this to pay the Indebtedness
caused by the separation.
THE finances of the state branch of the
woman's auxiliary to the Board of Missions
of the Episcopal Church are in excellent
condition. AT the eighth annual meeting
in Bellows Falls, recently, it was voted to
make the amount in the treasury $500 this
year. The sum of $345 was appropriated
$500 of it to Vermont missions.
In the preachers meeting on Wednesday
the veteran Rev. Peter Merrill, who has
been worker for temperance and prohib
ton through "A long life and who declared
that he would vote only for temperance
men, said that the child is not born who
will see prohibitory amendment grated
upon the national Constituency Woodstock
Standard
NOTWITHSTANDING the secrecy enioineG
upon their gatherings, it has come to the
knowledge of the Herald that at the mex
session of the Legislature an attempt will bt
made by the same parties who succeeded il
securing the division of the town at the las
session to again further cut into this town
The scheme is to run the Proctor line dow
through Center Rutland to Clarendon
Rutland Herdld.
THE eighteenth annual meeting of tn,
Vermont Dairymen's Association will b,
held January next. The officers in charg,
are endeaVOring to secure the services o